About the Authors

Jiannan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiannan Wu, Shunrong Li, Weijuan Jia

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China, Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Shunrong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiannan Wu, Shunrong Li, Weijuan Jia

Affiliation Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Weijuan Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiannan Wu, Shunrong Li, Weijuan Jia

Affiliation Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Heran Deng

Affiliation Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Kai Chen

Affiliation Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Liling Zhu

Affiliation Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Fengyan Yu

fengxisu@vip.163.com (FS); fengyanyu_summer@163.com (FY)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China, Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Fengxi Su

fengxisu@vip.163.com (FS); fengyanyu_summer@163.com (FY)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China, Depart of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS FY. Performed the experiments: JW SL. Analyzed the data: WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HD. Wrote the paper: JW KC LZ. In situ hybridization analysis: SL.